Posted on 08/26/2004 11:41:16 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
WASHINGTON- As Laura Bush tells it, she and her husband were pulling into the driveway one night when she turned to him and said the speech he had just given wasn't very good. He drove into the garage wall.
No wonder the future president went a little off course. These were words from an endlessly supportive wife, who had till then heeded advice from mother-in-law Barbara Bush never to criticize her husband's speeches. The family car-or at least the ranch pickup-has been safe ever since.
Sure, she let be known she didn’t care for his “dead or alive” ultimatum to Osama bin Laden. But first and foremost, this first lady is cheerleader to the president, and one who has used a louder megaphone this campaign than in the last to tell people what a great guy she and the country have landed.
In speaking so often of him, she has revealed little of herself.
“Very disciplined,” she calls herself. “I don’t really have to watch everything I say, because I’m pretty well-behaved as it is.”
In measured steps, Laura Bush has put a sharper edge on her campaigning this year. She’s traveling without her husband more often.
Moving beyond the contentious topics of literacy, heart disease and the increasing well-being of Afghan women, she pushed into the debate over stem cell research, in the process taking guarded but unmistakable shots at the opposition.
I gotta agree with that, I originally termed her demeanor "gentle patriotism" as she was demure but effective. Now I see her taking the fight to the Rats. She may have been motivated by W's taking our fight to the terrorists, but maybe on her own. The Bush women are corageous and intelligent, and when the heat is on, they stay and fight.
The car accident story is an old story. It's not meant to suggest that the 'dead or alive' speech is the same speech.
Take THAT, Teraaaaayyyza !
Taraazzaa can't hold a bottle of ketchup to Laura.
Laura Bush participates in the dedication of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in
Cincinnati, Ohio, Monday, Aug. 23, 2004. Pictured with Mrs. Bush are the center's executive director Dr.
Spencer Crew, right, and President Edward Riguad.
Laura rocks!
She can sure tell people to shut up. Come to think of it, so can her husband.
That, plus she is pretty easy on the eyes, unlike the disloyal opposition.
VS. 
Could you believe I got the kerry picture from a pro-kerry site ? Looks like she is about to claw somebody ! LOL
"Say WHAT?"
It was not the same speech. The drove-into-the-wall speech was when he was running for congress in Texas. Laura was at the white house when she told him she didnt like the dead or alive saying.
I admire Laura for marrying him!!! LOL
She wasn't really being derogatory as a wife. I think it was more of a teacher thing....like my fabulous English Teacher who corrected the grammar of the letters sent to her by her boyfriend and sent them back to him. She did wind up with someone else eventually!!
A debate wont work because "shove it" after each question would not be a very good debate.
She truly is a class act!!! And I LOVE her sense of humor.
for you
This must have been when he was Governor of Texas. I don't see The Commander in Chief driving himself or the First Lady anywhere.
First lady Laura Bush takes a flashlight candle from director and CEO Dr. Spencer Crew (R) and president Edwin Rigaud (L) at the dedication ceremony for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in downtown Cincinnati 
And in that regard you better not cross a true Southern Lady.
Bottom line: GWB married well and was smart enough to know it!
This is why the Rats would never allow a debate, unprecedented as it is. Also it is the reason that Laura does not receive the press coverage that her activities merit.
Each time Laura and Teraaaza appear in the media there is the possibility of comparison by the public, sort of like the comparison a debate would surely generate. The only answer for the liberal biased media is to reduce exposure for Laura and coverup Teraaaza's foul ups, by reducing her exposure as well, if necessary.
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